However, in early Tiberian manuscripts such as the Aleppo codex and the Leningrad codex, Chronicles is placed as the first book in Ketuvim, preceding Psalms.

Ben Asher wrote a standard codex ( the Aleppo Codex ) embodying his opinions.

Most importantly, in the 1850s, R. Shalom Shachne Yellin sent his son in law, Moses Joshua Kimchi, to Aleppo, to copy information about the Codex ; Kimchi sat for weeks, and copied thousands of details about the codex into the margins of a small handwritten Bible.

The Leningrad Codex, which dates to approximately the same time as the Aleppo codex, has been claimed to be a product of the Ben-Asher scriptorium.

Rabbi David ibn abi Zimra testifies to this being the same codex that was later transferred to Aleppo.

This was the first edition to include a reconstruction of the letters, vowels, and cantillation marks in the missing parts of the Aleppo codex.

* The biblical text ( based on the Aleppo codex and a careful reconstruction of its missing parts ) is keyed-in, including vowels and cantillation signs, allowing for sophisticated research on details of grammar.

* The masorah is also keyed in ( also based on the Aleppo codex and supplemented by a special commentary ).

Both versions are based on the Aleppo codex, but Mechon Mamre's edition is based on the editing method of Rabbi Mordecai Breuer, which differs slightly from the Mikra ' ot Gedolot Haketer edition in some small details.

In early manuscripts ( most importantly in Tiberian Masoretic manuscripts, such as the Aleppo codex ), an " open " section may also be represented by a blank line, and a " closed " section by a new line that is slightly indented ( the preceding line may also not be full ).

The Aleppo Codex, against which the Leningrad Codex was corrected, is several decades older, but parts of it have been missing since 1947, making the Leningrad Codex the oldest complete codex of the Tiberian mesorah that has survived intact to this day.

* For more about ink making and Aleppo galls see " How to make ink ", The ink corrosion website.

The Aleppo Codex website cites two letters in the Cairo Geniza that describe how the inhabitants of Ashqelon borrowed money from Egypt to pay for the books.

* Aleppo University Open Studies, the students ' website

Atta criticized how the modern skyscrapers and development projects in Aleppo were disrupting the fabric of that city by blocking community streets and altering the skyline.

It is suspected this explains how the location of the island was certainly known to the English only a few years later, for example, William Barrett ( who died in 1584 as English consul at Aleppo, Syria ) stated the island was “ sixteene degrees to the South ”, which is precisely the correct latitude.

The Israeli writer Amnon Shamosh wrote an account of how it was brought to Israel in his " Ha-Keter: Sippuro shel Keter Aram Soba " ( The Crown: The Story of the Aleppo Codex ), published in 1987.

In Aleppo, for example, the largest and probably the oldest mosque library, the Sufiya, located at the city's Grand Umayyad Mosque, contained a large book collection of which 10, 000 volumes were reportedly bequeathed by the city's most famous ruler, Prince Sayf al-Dawla.

No Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into the book One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Syrian Arab storyteller from Aleppo.

He also wrote the non-fiction book Haketer, the Story of the Aleppo Codex.

One also finds in Aleppo a book by Abdalli ( Al Hassan Ben Yahya ), descendant of Ali Ben Abi Taleb, born in 194 H in Al Aqiq in Hijaz.

Henry McMahon had exchanged letters with Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca in 1915, in which he had promised Hussein control of Arab lands with the exception of " portions of Syria " lying to the west of " the districts of Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo ".

On June 12, Aleppo was formally placed in Ayyubid hands.

Aleppo formally entered Ayyubid hands on June 12.

Aleppo was soon besieged by and within a week, in January 1260, it fell in Mongol hands.

On quartz clocks the weights are conventionally cast in the shape of Aleppo pine cones made of plastic rather than iron, as are as the cuckoo bird and clock hands.

Plant communities include broadleaf sclerophyllous maquis shrublands, forests of Aleppo Pine ( Pinus halepensis ) and Turkish Pine ( Pinus brutia ), and dry oak ( Quercus spp.

During Baldwin III's reign, the County of Edessa, the first crusader state established during the First Crusade, was conquered by Zengi, the Turkic emir of Aleppo.

Zengi united Aleppo, Mosul, and other cities of northern Syria, and intended to impose his control on Damascus in the south.

He taught medicine and philosophy at Cairo and at Damascus for a number of years, and afterwards, for a shorter period, at Aleppo.

His later life was spent in various parts of the Islamic world, in Aleppo with its governor Sayf ad-Dawlah ( to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs ), in Ray with the Buwayhid vizier Ibn ' Abbad, and elsewhere.

Duval travelled across the Middle East overland via Aleppo and took a ship from Basra to Bombay, acquainting Governor-General of India Viscount Wellesley with the situation in Egypt.

The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.

The Citadel of Aleppo, Syria.

And in the 13th century a Syrian historian from Aleppo includes four references for couscous.

Armoured cars and 5th Cavalry Division lancers were continuing the pursuit of Ottoman units north of Aleppo when the Armistice of Mudros was signed by the Ottoman Empire.

The largest massacre was at Antioch, where 5, 000 Druze religious leaders were killed, followed by that of Aleppo.

At a summit in Aleppo, Syria, in 1997, the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) proposed a reform in the calculation of Easter which would have replaced the present divergent practices of calculating Easter with modern scientific knowledge taking into account actual astronomical instances of the spring equinox and full moon based on the meridian of Jerusalem, while also following the Council of Nicea position of Easter being on the Sunday following the full moon.

However, this may have been a mask, as Raymond through Eleanor tried to forcibly sway Louis to use his army to attack the actual Muslim encampment at nearby Aleppo, gateway to recovering Edessa, the objective of the Crusade by papal decree.

* 967 – Sayf al-Dawla, Emir of Aleppo ( b. 916 )

The script on a monument at Boğazköy by a " People of Hattusas " discovered by William Wright in 1884 was found to match peculiar hieroglyphic scripts from Aleppo and Hamath in Northern Syria.

Of the major city-states in the region, only Aleppo and Qatna to the west in Syria maintained their independence.

These littermates were captured and imported in 1930 from Aleppo by Israel Aharoni, a zoologist of the University of Jerusalem.

* 916 – Sayf al-Dawla, Emir of Aleppo ( d. 967 )

Its location allowed it to benefit from the caravan trade to Aleppo and Baghdad, Shatt al-Arab trade, and from smuggling trade into Ottoman territory that high tariffs encouraged.

Tutush's sons Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan and Duqaq inherited Aleppo and Damascus respectively, further dividing Syria amongst emirs antagonistic towards each other, as well as Kerbogha, the atabeg of Mosul.

Although Antioch was severely weakened after the Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119, and Baldwin himself was held captive by the emir of Aleppo from 1122 – 1124, Baldwin led the crusader states to victory at the Battle of Azaz in 1125.

Fulk was then faced with a new and more dangerous enemy: the atabeg Zengi of Mosul, who had taken control of Aleppo and had set his sights on Damascus as well ; the union of these three states would have been a serious blow to the growing power of Jerusalem.

Zengi's territory had been divided amongst his sons after his death, and Damascus no longer felt threatened, so an alliance had been made with Zengi's son Nur ad-Din, the emir of Aleppo.

Perhaps remembering attacks launched on Jerusalem from Damascus in previous decades, Damascus seemed to be the best target for the crusade, rather than Aleppo or another city to the north which would have allowed for the recapture of Edessa.